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The most significant event was the CME impact and consequent wake turbulence July 16th/17th which sparked a G2 storm and beautiful aurora. Apart from a minor CME event at the start of the month, mostly the space environment was fairly quiet except for occasional gusts of solar wind from a couple of coronal holes.

Hi Alexandra, let's hope so. I was hoping for something later this week ahead of my trip to Iceland, but AR2670 appears to be too stable and I don't see any coronal holes on the horizon in time for my short stay. Ah well.....

Thanks, Mark. I'll certainly keep a look out for NLCs. Some aurorae would be nice though.

John, coronal holes allow the solar wind to flow more freely from the Sun, pushing charged particles at high speed out into space. When Earth is in the wind stream we see the effects as aurorae and geomagnetic unrest.